On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 01:44:36AM +0100, Alexander Fitterling wrote:/var/log amounts around 400MB of size - this is way huge! I want to get rid of those files - could that be done without any problems if considering to run the system without logging capabilities?
That sounds abnormally large. Both of my home desktops (Sid) have /var/log at about 13 MB. In the lab that I admin at school, the web/mail server has /var/log at 13 MB and the file/Samba/dhcp/NIS/NFS server has it at 9 MB.
Have you considered trying to lower the log verbosity level for which ever apps are the culprits?
I look forward see any responses! Alex
Computers do fail from time to time. When your computer fails, and you
come to this list asking for help, there will likely be a question:
What do you see in the log?
True. I rarely look in my log files, but when I need to I am glad that they are there.
Absolutely.If you answer, "I don't know. I turned all that off." , you will likely not get much useful help. This is not people being mean to a poor guy in trouble. It is just that it is hard to give useful advice when the standard source of useful clues is missing.
-Roberto
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